Your Linguistic Profile: |
40% Yankee |
35% General American English |
15% Dixie |
10% Upper Midwestern |
0% Midwestern |
That’s interesting, considering I’ve lived in the Midwest my entire life.
The only explanation I can offer is that I was raised by a mother who was a recent transplant from NYC.
Also, being married to a Brit has screwed up my language. I now unselfconsciously use terms like take the piss out of (tease), half four (4:30), and on the beers (out for drinks) without realizing, until I see puzzled expressions, that those aren’t colloquialisms that have any meaning to most Americans.
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